Direct Note Access

I don’t usually get excited about software. Not in a geeky god-is-a-mackintosh kinda way. But I love this. And I want it. Melodyne’s new Direct Note Access plug-in was invented by geek genius Peter Neubaker, who is featured demonstrating his invention in this film (note the frenzied cheering of his geek fans). It’s actually quite astonishing to see him strip a violin part out of a Mozart piece pretty much in real time, move notes around & put it back together how he wants.  It achieves something that was pretty much thought contrary to the laws of physics up to this point, that once a piece of music was mixed down, it was that way for good. Much like once a painting is made you can’t just take out all the red. Except you can in photoshop. But there wasn’t photoshop for music. Until now.

If it works in practice as well as it does in this demo, it means I can rip the vocals out of all the showtunes I can’t get karaoke versions of & replace them with my own. I can’t wait.